The /Dev/Hell podcast, hosted by PHP community members Ed Finkler and Chris Hartjes, has released their latest episode - Episode 40: Poly Life Mentoring.

The big four-oh hits us, this time with our special Fictive Kin friend Sean Coates. We talk lots about deploying web applications in various languages, the impact Composer has had on PHP development, formal and informal mentoring, and how to get accepted to speak at conferences.

They also talk about a wide variety of other subjects in this edition including RVM+Bundler, Composer+Packagist, Flash, PHPMentoring.org and Webshell. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you like what you hear, consider subscribing to their feed for more great episodes.

As I write this on Christmas Eve, Chris is putting the finishing touches on PHP Advent 2010. [...] Due only to the abilities and professionalism of our most excellent authors, PHP Advent 2010 was - at least in my opinion-the best year, yet. They wrote wonderful, substantial, punchy articles that informed our readers, and generated significantly more traffic than we've seen in previous years: over 70,000 views, from more than 25,000 unique visitors, so far

He also recounts a few stories from the Advents in years past - the difficulties he and Chris went through to get things organized and ready for publication and how, in 2009 some things almost didn't happen. This year's advent has come back stronger than ever with great articles on:

Good news for all of the fans of the PHP Advent article series that comes around this time each year - Chris Shiflett has confirmed it'll be happening again this year.

PHP Advent is our little way of showcasing some of the talented people who work with PHP in some form or fashion, and persuading them to share something they've learned during a busy month when they might otherwise keep quiet. We'll be publishing an article each day in December until Christmas.

If you're new to the PHP Advent (or advent-type article calendar things), check out last year's articles from lots of great members of the PHP community covering everything from development processes, technology tips and parenting.

Pique Web is about interesting things on the web. Perhaps even things that Pique our Interest. You see what's happening here. Your regular hosts are Sean Coates and Paul Reinheimer, guests join them with some regularity. This is Part 2 of our interview with Ed Finkler, discussing Web Platforms and Twitter.

Is it December again already? I like good traditions, so with the help of Sean and many others, PHP Advent is back again, this time with its own domain. I would call it a web site, but that might be stretching the truth at the moment. Jon is going to help us out with a simple design in the very near future. The focus, of course, is the quality content from our gracious authors.

If you didn't get a chance to be a part of the live P3 podcast that marked the end of Sean Coates' time with the php|architect crew, you can check out the audio of it in the latest show on the podcast feed.

This is a recording from the P3 Live! Video/podcast we recorded on Tuesday July 29, 2008. Over 50 people joined Paul, Beth and Sean to watch the video stream and listen live. We even managed to cover some news, and talk to some people.

Special thanks to Evan Prodromou from http://identi.ca and Terry Chay for taking our phone calls, and especially to everyone who joined us for the party.

As a reminder, the P3 podcast (from php|architect) will be hosting a live session tonight - Sean Coates' last time on the show via a live video feed on a Yahoo!Live page.

Please join us on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 for a special live edition of php|architect's P3 Podcast. It will be special not only because we will be be broadcasting video via Yahoo!Live, but it will also be Sean's last P3 podcast.

The show will be starting around 9PM Eastern (America/Montreal) and, for those that can't make it, the audio only will be recorded and put back in to the podcast's feed.